Matthew Godfrey's Education Blog

Teaching gets a bad press, but when Matthew Godfrey wanted a career change, he decided to try his hand in front of the class This article appeared in The Daily Telegraph on 8 January 2000 EARLY last year, at the age of 27, I experienced an "early career crisis". On paper, all was going well: a good degree from Durham, two years with a leading IT consultancy and, latterly, more than four years in a managerial role with a rapidly growing business. But this apparently seamless progression from graduate to professional had left me uncertain and anxious about what I really wanted to do with my life. Once, I had bounded along happily with the graduate crowd but now I felt an urgent need to reconsider. I had always liked the idea of teaching but had been repeatedly distracted by other opportunities and the poor press the profession receives. I had also been reluctant to return to education so soon after having left it myself. My foray into the commercial world had gi...